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[Q] Help. Stuck on the title screen after I removed SG4 battery during boot.

Hi everyone,
I'm a noob here but I read the guidelines
You're the only who can save me tonight (it's 3 a.m. here and sry for my bad english).
I rooted my Galaxy S4 (international version - Snap 600 - i9505) and I flashed the latest nightly of cyanogenmod. I started my device and, after 4-5 minutes, the rom started. I felt immediately disappointed, it's a pre-alfa version and I installed it just to try it.
So, I decided to install the Pure Google Rom with Android 4.3 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341026).
I rebooted my device, but for some reasons (I got a small crash, because I failed, removing my battery during the boot animation), my phone is now stucked at the title screen.
I can see just "Samsung Galaxy S4 - GT_i9505" on an infinite black screen. I'm so sad, I wish to solve this problem...
P.S. I tried to reboot in recovery mode: almost the 70% of the times I tried, it failed entering recovery mode. The only time it entered recovery, I wiped everything, but nothing seems to change.
Please help :\

demLong said:
Hi everyone,
I'm a noob here but I read the guidelines
You're the only who can save me tonight (it's 3 a.m. here and sry for my bad english).
I rooted my Galaxy S4 (international version - Snap 600 - i9505) and I flashed the latest nightly of cyanogenmod. I started my device and, after 4-5 minutes, the rom started. I felt immediately disappointed, it's a pre-alfa version and I installed it just to try it.
So, I decided to install the Pure Google Rom with Android 4.3 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341026).
I rebooted my device, but for some reasons (I got a small crash, because I failed, removing my battery during the boot animation), my phone is now stucked at the title screen.
I can see just "Samsung Galaxy S4 - GT_i9505" on an infinite black screen. I'm so sad, I wish to solve this problem...
P.S. I tried to reboot in recovery mode: almost the 70% of the times I tried, it failed entering recovery mode. The only time it entered recovery, I wiped everything, but nothing seems to change.
Please help :\
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Usually the international version is i9500 running on Exynos Octa core. Are you sure you loaded the right firmware?
If you have flashed the custom recovery (CWM, Philz, TWRP), you can try to load different firmware (copy to SD card first). Worst case, you can use Odin to flash. Unless it is hardware problem, it is not easy to brick the phone.

Thx
tingtan said:
Usually the international version is i9500 running on Exynos Octa core. Are you sure you loaded the right firmware?
If you have flashed the custom recovery (CWM, Philz, TWRP), you can try to load different firmware (copy to SD card first). Worst case, you can use Odin to flash. Unless it is hardware problem, it is not easy to brick the phone.
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Thank you, I flashed the philz touch version for i9505 and it works flawlessly. I installed the Google Stock Rom and it's working. I'll update tomorrow if I got crashes or black screens.
Thank you so much tingtan

bricked my s4...soft bricked?

I soft bricked my at&t s4. I had flashed the golden eye rom and it was working fine. but today i woke up and it was at the black screen with white text saying "samsung galaxy s4". dunno why randomly it happened at night. But does this mean i dont have root? cuz ive never seen this screen since i rooted and flashed roms onto the phone. any help would be appreciated.
im using twrp and was using cm10.1 and just changed to golden eye tw rom. any help?

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param.006 said:
I soft bricked my at&t s4. I had flashed the golden eye rom and it was working fine. but today i woke up and it was at the black screen with white text saying "samsung galaxy s4". dunno why randomly it happened at night. But does this mean i dont have root? cuz ive never seen this screen since i rooted and flashed roms onto the phone. any help would be appreciated.
im using twrp and was using cm10.1 and just changed to golden eye tw rom. any help?
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what is your baseband are you running and did you wipe your phone before you flashed the new rom

galaxy s4 i337 stuck on bootAnimation
hi my phone is at&t galaxy s4 i337 rooted but not instaled recovery the phone was working good suddenly i deleted at&t software updater application the phone reboot itself stuck in at&t boot logo now is not booting up tried to wipe data factory reset but nothing and then when i am trying to wipe ceche partition giving me error tried to reflash via odin olso error please help thnks

FAILED to flash rom, stuck in bootloop I9500, please help.

Hey guys. I tried to find similar topic but I couldn't.
I'm facing a problem with my Galaxy S4 i9500. Around a mouth ago I flushed kitkat with odin. After that I rooted it. The phone was working properly until couple of days ago. It start freezing and restarting. 2 days ago couldn't start at all. Stuck on SAMSUNG logo. I tried to flash kitkat again , but it failed. I was able to flash CWM recovery 6.0.3.3-i9500 and clean the cache, delvik cache and tried to restore the manufacturer settings. After rebooting, I see Samsung logo. phone restart and stuck on the Samsung logo again.
Hopefully someone can help me out.
Thank you.

Doesn't sound like a software problem. I think you have some hardware failure. I don't think it's your power button though, otherwise you wouldn't be able to stay in download mode for more then a few sec.

That doesn't sound good. What hardware problem might be? The phone has never been dropped and always been in a case.

pmadzhurov said:
Hey guys. I tried to find similar topic but I couldn't.
I'm facing a problem with my Galaxy S4 i9500. Around a mouth ago I flushed kitkat with odin. After that I rooted it. The phone was working properly until couple of days ago. It start freezing and restarting. 2 days ago couldn't start at all. Stuck on SAMSUNG logo. I tried to flash kitkat again , but it failed. I was able to flash CWM recovery 6.0.3.3-i9500 and clean the cache, delvik cache and tried to restore the manufacturer settings. After rebooting, I see Samsung logo. phone restart and stuck on the Samsung logo again.
Hopefully someone can help me out.
Thank you.
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Did you remove all knox related apps when you rooted?
I recommend..flash stock rom.
After that..flash philz and deknox script..
Then reroot via philz itself..(philz options reroot)
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[Q] [HELP] SafeStrap Black Screen After Installing Every Touch-Wiz Based ROM

Need serious help, been having the same issue the past 2 days!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 i337 AT&T with SafeStrap 3.71 installed. I have tried every possible solution known to man and my only other option is posting here. Bootloader being locked really blows more than anything, it would be my luck to have bought this phone with this issue. I installed a Touch-Wiz based rom, SafeStrap compatible, which was Hyperdrive at first then I tried GOLDENEYE ROM - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313469&highlight=black+screen - I wiped everything off my phone, system, data, cache, and put the ROM's on my extsdcard to install. I went through Aroma installer and done everything correctly but after I reboot, it shows me the samsung galaxy s4 logo and then black screen of death. Nothing happens, I kept it on for about 30 minutes and nothing happened. The phone was getting hot so I knew something was running but nothing came on. I tried this with 4 Roms today and same thing every time. I was installing them to the Rom-slot1 and made sure I was doing everything the correct way. I re-wiped everything each time. I haven't seen that nobody else was having this issue and couldn't find help no where, of course my luck I would have this problem over and over. I have flashed the stock 4.4.2 kitkat software back on to it for now through odin and that is the only thing that has worked AT ALL. I hope someone can help me fix this issue so I can install a ROM to remove this laggy bloated stock software.
SafeStrap is a pain in every part of my butt

Brandon.Black said:
Need serious help, been having the same issue the past 2 days!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 i337 AT&T with SafeStrap 3.71 installed. I have tried every possible solution known to man and my only other option is posting here. Bootloader being locked really blows more than anything, it would be my luck to have bought this phone with this issue. I installed a Touch-Wiz based rom, SafeStrap compatible, which was Hyperdrive at first then I tried GOLDENEYE ROM - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313469&highlight=black+screen - I wiped everything off my phone, system, data, cache, and put the ROM's on my extsdcard to install. I went through Aroma installer and done everything correctly but after I reboot, it shows me the samsung galaxy s4 logo and then black screen of death. Nothing happens, I kept it on for about 30 minutes and nothing happened. The phone was getting hot so I knew something was running but nothing came on. I tried this with 4 Roms today and same thing every time. I was installing them to the Rom-slot1 and made sure I was doing everything the correct way. I re-wiped everything each time. I haven't seen that nobody else was having this issue and couldn't find help no where, of course my luck I would have this problem over and over. I have flashed the stock 4.4.2 kitkat software back on to it for now through odin and that is the only thing that has worked AT ALL. I hope someone can help me fix this issue so I can install a ROM to remove this laggy bloated stock software.
SafeStrap is a pain in every part of my butt
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Use safestrap 3.75
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jd1639 said:
Use safestrap 3.75
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app
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Thanks so much! That did the job.

Galaxy S5 Stuck On Splash Screen with Set Warranty Bit: kernel ---please help

First post, So hey everyone
So I rooted my phone around 6 months ago with CF Auto Root, everything went fine but i was still on stock ROM. So then i found the Alliance ROM and decided to flash that because it looked cool. I flashed it using FlashFire to ensure I keep root. Everything worked and booted just fine, really smooth and of course it looked awesome. One small problem though, I could not send messages but I could receive them. Probably a SMSC (that was around 3 hours of head ache attempting to fix that) issue or because Straight Talk didn't like my phone using Android 5.0. So then I tried downgrading to Alliance 4.4.2, NOPE. That was the end of my phone :'(
Im now stuck on the Galaxy S5 screen with "Set Warranty Bit: Kernel" in the top right. No idea how to fix it and obviously knox was tripped but that isnt a huge deal to me.
I have tried the following.
1. Tried to reroot (seemed to fix a lot of issues actually)
2. Tried to reflash Alliance ROM android 5.0
3. Multiple cache and system wipes.
4. Installed TWRP through Odin but thats useless because I was dumb and deleted my back up in the system wipe
Im currently downloading stock ROM but my hope for that is fading judging that TWRP even stalls out and the phone reboots right when it attempts to flash. - well this was a bust, there are 4 freaking md5 files. when i go to flash with odin it says it a modem and then fails
What i have access to:
1. Recovery
2. Download
Is my phone already 6ft under or is it hanging on for dear life?
Edit: Should also mention that my galaxy is a SM-G902L (Straight Talks' model???). CF Auto Root for Galaxy SM-900F was used to root. So that is what i based my choice for model when installing Alliance
Ok so recent update, When I go into reboot and do system or whatever, it says there's no OS installed. I guess that would make sense why it doesn't want to boot, because there's nothing to boot into... but why cant i install any OS through odin???
Another Update: So I have no OS, I know how to flash a new OS, such as a custom ROM, but my phone refuses to accept the flash whether through odin or through TWRP.... W.T.F. Did i really look my phone down? And I guess that means that I will need to get the Straight Talk variant of Android 4.4.2 Great If anyone has the a backup and they are on straight talk, please help me out
Thanks for the help!

FIXED!!!
So after around 14-16 total hours of headaches, I have managed to bring my phone out of the grave. I read over the Straight Talk Variant Galaxy S5 thread multiple times and saw people saying that most Verizon ROMs work decently if not perfectly fine with the SM-G902L. So I downloaded M.O.A.R ROM and flashed through TWRP.
Worked like a freaking charm!! She booted right up, into the waterspout boot animation, and after a very long 5 minutes, I got to the welcome and setup screens!! I guess it was just a matter of finding the right ROM. I just find it kind of weird that it would flash Alliance just fine and then not allow it the second time...
Anyway, the very helpful thread that saved my phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/help/galaxy-s5-straight-talk-variant-sm-s902l-t3162340